Water Remediation Technology (WRT) opened its new Media Production Facility in Golden, Colorado. Water Remediation Technology (WRT) opened its new Media Production Facility in Golden, Colorado. The new facility provides expanded media production, processing and storage capabilities for WRT’s proprietary treatment media products and OEM customers and business partners. This facility will allow WRT to fulfill the increasing demand for Z-88© Radium Removal Media and Z-92© Uranium Removal Media, develop and produce other proprietary treatment media, and continue to grow and develop OEM media production and processing business partnerships. The environmentally friendly facility includes a comprehensive water treatment and recovery […]
New WRT Media Production Facility Underway
WRT to meet the increasing demand for Z-88® Radium Removal Media and Z-92® Uranium Removal Media with new facility The construction of WRT’s new media production and processing facility is underway. Located along the foothills in Golden, Colorado, the facility provides expanded media production, processing and storage capabilities for WRT’s proprietary treatment media products and OEM customers and business partners. Scheduled for completion in July 2015, this facility will allow WRT to meet the increasing demand for Z-88® Radium Removal Media and Z-92® Uranium Removal Media, develop and produce other proprietary treatment media and continue to grow and develop OEM […]
5 Burning Questions on Uranium and Radium Removal
WRT provides guidance by addressing five key questions utilities should consider when choosing a system to remove uranium or radium Thursday, April 16, 2015 Water Online: High levels of radionuclides (uranium/radium/etc.) in drinking water aren’t very common, but they are very dangerous. As carcinogens, these contaminants are strictly regulated by the U.S. EPA; every utility must monitor and provide adequate treatment in accordance with the federal rule, established in 1976 and revised in 2000. If you’ve long dealt with radionuclides, you’re familiar with the treatment requirements — but are you treating as cost effectively as possible? Or perhaps you’re new […]
GI Reluctant but Successful Pioneer in Uranium Removal
Grand Island is the first city to launch a project of this scale; city is happy with results By Steve White, Grand Island Bureau Chief / Nebraska.TV “We like to spend money like we like to see squirrels in transformers.” Who says utilities administrators like Tim Luchsinger have no sense of humor? And as much as the guys at the power plant hate seeing a critter cause a power outage, they don’t like spending millions to solve problems no one’s complaining about. In this case, the problem is uranium in Grand Island’s water. Luchsinger, the utilities director said, “I don’t […]
WRT Wins Top Honors in the 2012 BlueTech Forum Water Technology “Showcase” Awards Competition
WRT wins the Go-to-Market Strategy Award Ecolyse and WRT Win Top Honors in the 2012 BlueTech Forum Water Technology “Showcase” Awards Competition At the 2012 BlueTech Forum in San Francisco, 14 innovative water technology companies from Canada, Australia, Denmark and the U.S. presented their technology, company value proposition, business plan, and go-to-market strategy. Water industry executives, leaders, utility managers, investors, and government officials attending the event voted for the technology they felt was most disruptive (Disrupt-o-Meter™ Award), as well as the company with the strongest business approach (Go-to-Market Strategy Award). San Francisco, CA – The 2012 BlueTech Forum, the water […]
Illinois Town Contracts for Radium Removal
Water Remediation Technology LLC (WRT) has installed and put into operation two of the company’s Z-88® radium removal systems in the village of Antioch, IL. Under a 20-year contract, WRT is responsible for the environmentally safe handling, removal, and shipping of the spent treatment media from the treatment site to a licensed disposal facility, ensuring that the treatment waste isn’t reintroduced into the local environment. Prior to treatment, the radium concentration in the water from Antioch’s two wells averages 12.3 pCi/L, which is above the US Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant level for combined radium-226/228 of 5 pCi/L. One of […]
Treating Troubled Water
Water treatment system successfully removes radium from drinking water The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long regulated radium in drinking water, but in December 2000 the EPA lowered the maximum allowable levels for radionuclides. As a result, water utilities across the country retested for radium. Those that found radium contamination exceeding new EPA standards faced a three-year deadline to comply—by either removing the radium to improve the quality of the existing water supply or finding alternative water sources. Upon retesting, the city of Brookfield, Wis., found radium levels exceeded the maximum allowable in two of the city’s 22 groundwater […]
WRT Responds To The Call For Drought Relief In Lawrenceville, GA, Helping to Open Water Well
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA – A new uranium removal system provided by Water Remediation Technology, LLC (WRT) will enable the City of Lawrenceville, GA, to open a well that has concentrations of uranium that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) for drinking water. The installation of the Lawrenceville system will be the first of its kind in Georgia; plans are in place for additional systems. Located in the Atlanta metro area, Lawrenceville, Ga., is home to just over 28,000 people and is the county seat of Gwinnett County. Lawrenceville signed a 20-year contract with WRT to remove uranium from […]
WRT Installs Two New Water Treatment Systems in Illinois
ANTIOCH, IL – Water Remediation Technology, LLC (WRT) has installed and put into operation two new Z-88® Radium Removal systems in the Village of Antioch, further expanding its operations in Illinois. Under a 20-year contact, the WRT system will improve the quality and safety of drinking water for residents. Located just south of the Wisconsin border in Lake County, Antioch is a historic community with nearly 14,000 residents. The WRT treatment systems will lower the amount of radium in the water to a level below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) requirements, ensuring that the community has safe drinking water. […]
Zeolite-Based System Safely Removes Radium From Drinking Water
In 2000, the EPA revisited regulations and monitoring requirements for the presence of radionuclides in drinking water. While most radioactive materials that are present in water supplies are naturally occurring, over time they can present considerable human health risks when allowed to reach unsafe levels in drinking water. One such radionuclide is radium (specifically radium-226 and radium- 228), for which the EPA set the maximum contaminant level (MCL) at five picocuries per liter (pCi/L) in 1976. In 2000, the EPA re-confirmed this MCL and established regulations for monitoring of radium levels in public water systems, with a mandate for communities […]